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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5262957" data-attributes="member: 78116">Some people think essentials is going to turn 4E into 3E or some nonsense (which it won't). Some of the mechanics of essentials are a bit more like older editions, like Magic Missile being a low damage automatic hit power and the Knight being focused around making basic attacks without dailies like a regular fighter. What I've seen of essentials thus far is still basically 4th edition DnD mechanics, but some different interpretations for better (I think the Cleric/Mage sound pretty awesome) and worse (I think the Knight sounds like crap on a stick). The core concepts here are unmistakably the same as the rest of 4th edition though. Additionally it doesn't actually change anything that's already out in 4E or make it irrelevant though. So if you like some aspects of essentials you can easily take it and ignore what you don't like. Now how essentials design will influence the future of the game will remain to be seen. I for one am only going to relax when I see a release schedule with more awesome hardcover books in the lines of Draconomicons, Demonomicon, Open Grave and similar coming back. If these disappear then I'm going to get upset.</blockquote>